LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO....

Signed ad on The Reporter’s front page: “All persons are warned not to give, or cause to be given, any intoxicating liquors to my husband.”

Thorndale area farmer Henry Irby was killed with a shotgun blast on a road near the Nile community. The shooter was apprehended and taken to Cameron where a grand jury was in session. Grand jurors issued a no-bill (refused to indict) and the shooter returned home.

That grand jury did indict four Thorndale man accused of lynching a teenaged boy in that city earlier in the year.

Fire destroyed the Stewart Hotel in Milano, which contained the family residence and a doctor’s office. FORTY YEARS AGO....

A $400,000 bond election was called for Nov. 20 to help finance water, sewer and street improvements.

An immunization drive was under way in Milam County after two cases of diptheria were confirmed in Cameron.

Brick work was complete on the new First Baptist Church sanctuary being built at the corner of Bell and Green.